Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 16

Dogs can smell sweat and skin smells we cannot notice, each person has their own smell, and trained dogs have been reported in research to sniff out some illnesses.

Who acts: Dogs, we, person, smells · What happens: smell, not notice, have, train, report, sniff out · To what, where: sweat, skin smells, own smell, trained dogs, research, illnesses

This is a sentence of the lesson «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, we, person, smells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smells	cc
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smells	compound
7	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sweat	conj
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 notice	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 notice	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 notice	advmod
11	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 smells	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 smell	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 smell	amod
18	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reported	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 reported	cc
21	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dogs	amod
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reported	nsubj:pass
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 reported	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 reported	aux:pass
25	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 has	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 research	case
27	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reported	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sniff	mark
29	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 reported	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 sniff	compound:prt
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 illnesses	det
32	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sniff	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smell	can	Dogs	sweat and skin smells		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweat=Stimulus
2	not notice	can	we	skin smells not said here		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
3	have	present	each person	smells's own smell		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient
4	train	participle				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	report	present · perfect · passive		trained dogs	research	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	sniff out	to-infinitive		some illnesses		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme
7	smell		smells = smell			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath.lesson:16.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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